Today I upgraded (installed on top) to 2.4.1 and pidgin portable asked me to make an account (I had already set my accounts to the last version).
After a while I closed Pidgin and restarted it.
Pidgin was then asking again for my account. And so on...
I had the same problem with 2.4.0 but I'm not sure about earlier editions.
So :
(1)I installed my old Pidgin Portable (2.2.x or 2.3.x I think) and then
(2)installed the official Pidgin 2.4.1 from pidgin.im to my computer (which causes no problems).
(3)I copied the files from C:/Program Files/Pidgin to my Pidgin Portable/App/Pidgin folder and From C:/Program Files/Common/GTK/2.0 to my Pidgin Portable/App/GTK folder.
(!)This solved the problem of account forgetting of Pidgin Portable for me.
Finally I tried to check what caused the problem and I concluded that something is wrong with PidginPortable.exe (in the main PidginPortable folder).
The "latest" version that works for me well (does not make Pidgin Portable forget my accounts) is 1.5.1.0 (note that with Pidgin Portable 2.4.1 the launcher version was upgraded to 1.5.7.0).
So here is my problem 
Can you fix it so that I do not have to do all the copying tricks after every update?
I use WinXP SP1
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What are the full directories you're running from? And are you using a PidginPortable.ini at all? If so, ditch it and start a new one from the current launcher (the old INI was dropped for 2.3 and isn't supported anymore).
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I run it from MyDocuments (Τα έγγραφά μου) but I'm using a Greek edition of windows.
About PidginPortable.ini, I have never touched it. It might be old.
***BUT***
I have even tried a fresh install of Pidgin_Portable_2.4.1.0.paf.exe to a separate folder. I run pidgin, I log-in, I exit, I re-run pidgin and neither my account nor the window placement is saved.
---edit---
I just tried another fresh install on C:/ and it worked.
So as I can guess its a problem with the Greek alphabet of the Directories.
***BUT***
Why when using the older files there is no problem????
Unicode paths are not supported for most of the portable apps here. Keep in mind that this is mainly supposed to be used from X:\PortableApps. If you're running it locally, C:\PortableApps is recommended. A sub-directory within My Documents will often be too long a path for apps like OpenOffice.org anyway.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!